Darkest Descent by Hazel Black

Author:Hazel Black [Black, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

I hunched up on the frigid floor next to the sheets Hunter delivered, along with a cup of coffee and a bowl of tomato soup. Even a ham and cheese sandwich. But they sat there, cold, untouched, because I couldn’t, wouldn’t, take my eyes off my sister. Hours had passed since Hunter left her strung to the ceiling, and she hadn’t complained once.

Whatever he’d said to her, threatened her with. She believed it. With her whole being.

I stumbled to her, holding the stale sandwich in my fist. “W-will you eat?” I asked, hopelessness sinking over me when she didn’t react. Her eyes were open, her chest rose up and down, but it was like she’d managed what I’d always been able to. She’d gone somewhere else. At fucking last, she seemed to have done it. The selfish part of me wanted to force her back, to make her eyes glitter like they did when she was full of emotion - good and bad. They shone when she laughed, when she was angry. The urge to see that from her, to gain that comfort, was eating me alive. But I sighed and stepped back.

I decided to leave her there.

Looking up at the ceiling, at all corners of the room, I glared. “She’ll die, you know!” I yelled. “If we don’t clean her up, get her some medicine. You’ve had us long enough now that I don’t think you want that to happen!” I waited, listening for the sounds of him returning, I hoped with an entire fucking ambulance crew to repair every wound he’d caused on my sister. But nothing, only silence. The occasional creak of rope straining on wood as Alice shifted.

I stood there for at least an hour, listening, waiting, begging. Pleading with the damn fucking universe with not a stitch of clothing on, dirty and depraved and disgusted with myself.

And I decided, when Alice finally made a sound, a small whimper, that I needed to suck it up and be the strong one. I’d hurt her, sunk so deep into my mind that I became his weapon.

“Al,” I said, reaching for her and lifting her face with both my hands, making her look at me. “Alice.”

She groaned unhappily, tried to turn away. I kissed her lips, and she squeezed them shut, shaking her head. “No,” she muttered, “No, no no…”

But it was something. So I did it again, pressing my tongue into her mouth and forcing her response. It wasn’t a sexual thing; it was an awakening. The only thing I could think of to bring her back. Because despite the nicer part of me deciding to abandon her there, I couldn’t resist trying to claw her back to me. She’d done it for me before, comforted me in this way, calmed me with soothing words and gentle kisses. I needed to tell her I loved her, that I was sorry. I needed her to return to her selfish brother so I could apologize.

“Alice, come on,” I whispered against her lips.

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